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The help function and documentation of Microsoft looks like holding hands if you compare it to most open source projects.

Munich in 2006 (limux project), and Freiburg returned to MS from OpenOffice in 2014.

In my experience its irrelevant for the computer illiterate whether its OSS or M$S… They’ll always need handholding until they learn their workflow.

Very true, but most commercial software products have a lot of the hand holding integrated, where OSS doesn’t and as a result has a steeper learning curve. OSS developers aren’t interested in software support a lot of the time, quite a few just maintain it as a hobby. See this answer in the Putty FAQ for instance.

Minus the office certification it’s the same over here.

Call me a pessimist, but I’ve seen news from German cities or states that switched to open source in the past, and they never stuck with it. The biggest issue with open source is that a lot of time there is no one available to hold the hand of the computer illiterate, which results in failed adoption rates.

It’s not incompetence, they’d wish it was. It’s actually offering something like 30 different subscription plans, each offering a different slice of the possibilities. You’d actually have to pay a small fortune each month to have access to the full copilot stuff.

Source: was involved in a pilot project for work to test the use cases last year.

Collective Shout seems to aim for X next, according to their site.

The racism is in training on white patients only, not in the abilities of the AI in this case.

Thanks for taking my trolling in good stride. I actually loved the internet of 20 years ago. It was totally different from today, it’s actually a shame a lot of the way it was is gone forever. I vividly remember frequenting a few blogs, just slow chatting in the comments, making your own response images, hosting your own stuff like these images, sound clips and whatever else. Most ISP’s would give you some server space to host your own static html pages, and lot’s of people used this. The blogs would host photoshop contests, link to stuff they liked, reported on news or music or whatever their niche. The blogs I visited are mostly still around today, but they just don’t draw the engagement anymore.

the initial intent of what the internet was supposed to be

A communication network for scientists and the military?